That’s the case for the latest online superstar grabbing the public attention today, an Illinois raccoon that was discovered stuck in a sewer grate by police officers, having apparently eaten its fill of whatever delicious stuff—garbage, sewer apples, monster clowns—that raccoons feast on when they dive into a storm drain. Looking at its chubby little face, people were quick to project themselves onto this new mascot for self-destructive gluttony, reflecting on how, in a lot of ways, we are all just raccoons, happily trapped in the sewer drains of our earthly desires.

Anyway, the creature was eventually freed with the help of animal control; hopefully we won’t see it on some much more depressing police report in a week, frothing with rabies, or admitting to a reddit history full of racist political takes.